and I wondering what hells THC have to do with gadgets

nagash

if this website really knew what was up they would have not shown you this 48 sec clip of nonsense and gotten you all a real video to get the lowdown.

courtesy of arne hess and theunwired.net

[www.theunwired.net]

enjoi that bitches. giz should let me submit for a job!

shadymilkman

@MobileMilitia:
No i beleive that is an edited-in glare.

DarkHavoc99

@SgtToastie:
Yeah I wouldnt mind flashing and using the Andorid software with this hardware.

DarkHavoc99

is that fucking line going to be on the screen all the time?

MobileMilitia

ahem: "come to life." Excuse me.

orionburch

Because "your wildest fantasies will come true"!

orionburch

Maybe its be, but I sure didn't get spongey looking at that. We already know browsers can swoosh and slide and do smooth stuff... so - why should I buy it?

Stacky Botrus

@DarkHavoc99: And I bet the WinMo problem can be fixed with Android when this thing actually comes out.

SgtToastie

@Thorin78: it runs windows mobile.
do you think that there are more devels for the iphone than for winmo?
if so you are delusional.

mikeg916

Any word on who is going to get to carry this?

oh_nos

And Giz said this phone was gonna suck. Hypocrites.

Earthslide

I figure this will be $600 to $800 w/o a contract. I hope Tmobile picks them up in the US. Would be totally awesome. My only concern would be app support with this.

Apple has a large community that writes apps for their app store or cydia. But I've not heard much on the HTC or Xperia X1. My top two picks to replace my temporary iphone.

Thorin78

Dammit, besides windows mobile, I think this is really badass. Expensive, but what new phone isnt now?

DarkHavoc99

anybody know if this will be able to run Android?

wngchng87

@Thorin78: yup just another delusional iphone user who probably thinks they started the form factor and is the first os with a community-based application library. lols.

bpm2000

@nagash: First, learn to speak moron. Second, how is a smart phone not a gadget?

soccer1105

@wngchng87: yeah it would be scorching hot., G1 looks kinda amateurish.....

snowy_coke

@Thorin78: you're just lazy to find apps at the right places, so get a mac cause 'they just work'

snowy_coke

Mobile internet like never before? Really? Because it looked like any other MI device I've used.

My wildest fantasies come to life? Can I sure them for that one? As that certainly WILL NOT be the case with this phone.

So they just showed us a web browser, photos and movies. Hum...I can't put my finger on it but that sounds like MANY OTHER devices I've seen and used....hum....

JEmlay

@snowy_coke: ^drooling,yikes!

snowy_coke

@shadymilkman: Thanks u should do this more often xP,*dooling*

snowy_coke

@nagash: what do you have to do with gadgets?

snowy_coke

ummmm... 5 MP autofocus camera, MicroSD card slot, 3.8 inch 800x480 screen, ATi Imageon GPU, G-sensor, light sensor...

the only things it's missing are a flash for the camera and multi touch and most people don't really care about multi-touch too much since it's only used to zoom in and out.

I think this will be a big hit.

draiko

@wngchng87:

[www.htc.com]

Not likely. WM

Jrperiod

See now this should have been the 1st Andriod phone.

Jrperiod

I want one...
But the price of a laptop kills it for me.

:(

aec007

@soccer1105: He was joking and you completely missed it. Irony.

armeck

@Thorin78: There are over 14,000 WiMo apps (and heck they aren't all flashlight or lightsaber apps either!).

Microsoft was giving away the tools years ago (yes, with an emulator too) and all of their Pro level development tools comes with WiMo support in the box.

TheWerewolf

@DarkHavoc99: No disrespect, but you're kind of missing something here. The software that you're seeing *now* was written on WiMo. The OS isn't the user experience.

The fact is that Windows Mobile, is Windows CE, which is a platform used in a huge number of embedded OS devices, not just phones, and it's very stable and sturdy.

So, if your complaint is that the apps that come with WiMo are crappy - well, I'd disagree, although I will concede they're a touch unpolished, but if you're suggesting that there's something lacking in the OS that means you can't do what Android does or most of what iPhone OS can - well, sorry - you're wrong.

That being said, iPhone OS does have one huge advantage over WiMo that Android doesn't - it's far more a complete desktop OS. On the other hand, it needs a minimum of 250MB to live in - and really wants up to 700MB. WiMo only needs 32MB.

Or in other words, iPhone OS is bloatware. Which proves that more isn't always bad.

TheWerewolf

@undefined:

I've never had a WiMo phone so I'm certainly looking forward to this. I purchased my iphone cuz it would work on T-mobile and my old SE phone broke. It's been relatively easy to get apps because there is a convenient location to do so.

So is there an interface in the HTC or X1 to download these 14000 apps? I have no idea, why don't you guys reference something.

Thorin78

until they drop winmo...htc will always suck even with covering winmo up

livinzlife

@MobileMilitia: Only if you have your computer hooked up to an old plasma.

SomeoneUKno

@livinz@livinzlife:

Have you even used a Windows Mobile before? !!

Did Apple pay you or something?

Rahul_Ravikumar